SECRETS are IMPOSSIBLE to keep. Many people think that what they do in private only affects them and no one else. Drinking, drugging (even prescription medication), lusting, how you are treating your family, whatever you are doing in “private” can and usually does affect your family, friends, your reputation, and ultimately you are damaging your relationship with God. Jesus spoke harshly to those that look good on the outside, and yet inside there was something wrong. I am convicted when I read what is written in *Matthew 23:25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.* There have been times in my Christian walk that I have not been what I wanted to be, I was not living right before God when no one else was looking. I think of the words spoken in *Matthew 3:1 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”* and take those words to heart more today than any time in my life. May any who are not living right before God even in the smallest way, repent, return, restore, and repeat as often as needed. Charles Spurgeon wrote, “O my dear hearers, do ask yourselves whether you have sorrowed for sin because it is sin against God; for any hypocrite is sorry for sin which injures himself, or which may damage his reputation among men; but the essential thing is to be sorry because the evil is a wrong done to God.” Please pray for me as I pray for all who read these words to live a life pleasing to God in every way, in public and more so in private, in Jesus’ name, Amen. My BeLoved, may the grace of the Lord Jesus, and the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen. In Christ Love, douglas. HE>i. pastord.blog

Special Note: I want to thank those who read what I write and are encouraged to give either one time or have decided to give on a monthly basis in support of the different ministries God has entrusted to me. I am encouraged to see certain verses playing out before my eyes like what is written in *Philippians 4:16 For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities. 17 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.*

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